Question

Reduce
2x^3 + 2x^2-24x/x^3+2x^2-8x

Answer 1

\[\frac{ 2x^3 +2x^2-24x }{ x^3+2x^2-8x }\]

Answer 2

What common factors can you find in the numerator and denominator?

Answer 3

2x?

Answer 4

@tom982 you there?

Answer 5

2x doesn't go into x^3. For starters, we factorise the fraction:
\[\frac{x(2x-6)(x+4)}{x(x+4)(x-2)}\]Can you cancel this down?